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Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto Take an Exquisite Journey on 'Glass'

Musical innovators Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto recorded Glass live, totally improvised and inspired by an extended moment spent within structure, art, and nature.

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Ryuichi Sakamoto's 'Async: Remodels' Is One of Those Rare Remix Albums That Enhances the Original Recording

Ryuichi Sakamoto's async sounds almost as good when it comes out the remix wringer as Async: Remodels.

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Ryuichi Sakamoto: async

The celebrated composer is back from a recent health scare with his first solo album in eight years, and it's a dark, eerie, ethereal beauty.

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Ryuichi Sakamoto: Nagasaki - Memories of My Son

When you want weighty music for your weighty film, Ryuichi Sakamoto is the guy to call.

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Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto: The Revenant

After a short hiatus from music, Ryuichi Sakamoto set himself up for quite the challenge in scoring The Revenant.

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Vinicius Cantuária: Vinicius Canta Antonio Carlos Jobim

What happens when one Brazilian music giant tackles another? Smooth sailing, that's what.

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Ryuichi Sakamoto & Taylor Deupree: Disappearance

Inspired by their collaborative live performance, Sakamoto and Deupree create an elegant and sublime soundtrack for meditative mind.

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John Zorn + Ryuichi Sakamoto: [email protected], 4 October 2013 - Japan Society, New York

An entirely improvised performance by two of the scene's avant-garde composers

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The Best Electronic Music of 2012

2012 was another year of innovation and diversity in electronic music, but with the same artist as last year at the top of the heap after all was said and done.

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Exoticism and Eroticism in 'Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence'

As with Gohatto, Oshima's English-language debut features an exotic interloper who causes a sexual disturbance among an insular clique.

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Ryuichi Sakamoto: Playing the Piano/Out of Noise

For Ryuichi Sakamoto, a lifelong career of electro-pop and film scores have pointed the way to a hypnotizing double album of piano solos and reflective experiments. Uncork the champagne.

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Verse-Chorus-Verse: An Interview with Ingrid Chavez

Artist/producer PC Muñoz mines for gems and grills the greats.

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A lot of good movies are still missing from DVD. Here is a list of 25 that PopMatters feels have been unceremoniously left to simply fade away.

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Musical innovators Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto recorded Glass live, totally improvised and inspired by an extended moment spent within structure, art, and nature.

Ryuichi Sakamoto's async sounds almost as good when it comes out the remix wringer as Async: Remodels.

The celebrated composer is back from a recent health scare with his first solo album in eight years, and it's a dark, eerie, ethereal beauty.

When you want weighty music for your weighty film, Ryuichi Sakamoto is the guy to call.

After a short hiatus from music, Ryuichi Sakamoto set himself up for quite the challenge in scoring The Revenant.

What happens when one Brazilian music giant tackles another? Smooth sailing, that's what.

Inspired by their collaborative live performance, Sakamoto and Deupree create an elegant and sublime soundtrack for meditative mind.

An entirely improvised performance by two of the scene's avant-garde composers

2012 was another year of innovation and diversity in electronic music, but with the same artist as last year at the top of the heap after all was said and done.

As with Gohatto, Oshima's English-language debut features an exotic interloper who causes a sexual disturbance among an insular clique.

For Ryuichi Sakamoto, a lifelong career of electro-pop and film scores have pointed the way to a hypnotizing double album of piano solos and reflective experiments. Uncork the champagne.

Artist/producer PC Muñoz mines for gems and grills the greats.

A lot of good movies are still missing from DVD. Here is a list of 25 that PopMatters feels have been unceremoniously left to simply fade away.

The best we can say for this remix album is that the original material still sounds great.